Lead Electrical Engineer

Job Description

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Job Description

Effective Wednesday, December 8, 2021, all U.S.-based employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID as a condition of employment at Philips. Employees with a sincerely held religious belief and/or disability impacting their ability to obtain the COVID vaccine can request a reasonable accommodation.

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Philips is a global leader in health technology, committed to improving billions of lives worldwide and striving to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation. Driven by the vision of a better tomorrow.

But it’s not just what we do, it’s who we are. We are 80,000, wonderfully unique individuals, with two things in common: An unwavering sense of purpose and a relentless determination to deliver on our customers’ needs. It’s what inspires us to create meaningful solutions – the kind that make a real difference – when it matters most.

The world and our customers’ needs are changing faster than ever before and while we are proud of what we do already, we know we can do more. That’s why we need you, to help us tackle increasingly complex challenges posed by ever evolving health and well-being needs.

In this role, you have the opportunity to make life better

Looking at the challenges the world is facing today Philips’ purpose has never been more relevant. So, whatever your role, if you share our passion for helping others, you’ll be working towards creating a better and fairer future for all.

We challenge you to support the Philips’ MR Patient Care business as a Lead Electrical Engineer. Someone who can provide electrical engineering leadership across all aspects of products from advanced development to troubleshooting of issues in the field. This person will perform detailed design of patient monitoring assemblies, as well as generating and managing component level requirements.

The MR Patient Care Business identifies and meets customer and market needs by designing, developing, and distributing specialized MRI compatible solutions, consumables, and sensors.

You are responsible for

• Responsible for the electrical design of future generations of MR Patient Care products
• Connect and align with project management on project content, timeline, and costs
• Work with systems engineering, mechanical and other cross functional team members to design electronic hardware to meet system level functional and architectural requirements.
• As a lead electrical engineer, take ownership and drive design and development activities for circuit design, schematic capture, power budgeting, thermal management, and meeting EMI/EMC requirements.
• Conduct concept & feasibility studies. Lead the introduction of new technologies
• Act as electrical lead to review and provide oversight of R&D activities (i.e. internal and external support) developing products for the MRI.
• Oversee all design and development activities of the modules and sub-systems
• Responsible for requirements, design, implementation, test and integration of module/sub-system in accordance with the higher-level requirements and specifications
• Drive product development activities including development of design concepts, prototype testing, engineering specs, and module/system level tests.
• Lead design reviews, FMEA analyses, and other DfX related activities
• Draws up personal schedule and reports on progress
• Develop feature enhancements, generate, and document world class, innovative designs. This includes circuit design, schematic capture and creating specifications
• Provide technical leadership in problem solving and electrical hardware design activities
• Drive definition of electrical architecture for current and advanced development projects
• Translate architecture specifications into usable digital engineering data/requirements applicable to the subsystem and product level.
• Provide mentorship to junior engineers, interns, and co-ops

To succeed in this role, you’ll need a customer-first attitude and the following

• A Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
• At least 15 years work experience, preferably 10 years in a high-tech environment.
• Able to make a work break down and a planning for the electrical team in the project.
• Able to steer and supervise detailed design of electrical part of products and systems
• Proven experience in at least one of the domains medical equipment, industrial automation and high precision mechatronics as senior electrical designer or electrical team lead
• Experience with CE, EMC and UL regulations and more specifically with regulations for developing medical devices and equipment.
• Experienced to work according to the V model in defining requirements, test specifications, supervising execution of the tests and reporting the test results
• Proven team player and able to lead a team of electrical engineers in a multidisciplinary project
• General Knowledge in the following areas:
  • Analog front ends
  • Power supplies
  • High Speed digital circuits
  • Embedded Systems
  • FPGA (Xilinx preferred) and Signal Processing
  • Engineering reliability statistics
• Experience with design and test for EMC
• RF design experience is a plus
• Experience translating system and customer requirements into sub-system requirements
• Proven ability to document engineering analysis and design decisions
• Experience with Design of Experiments (DOE), DfX and FMEAs is preferred
• Experience working in a regulated field, preferably medical devices
• Proven ability with board bring up and troubleshooting activities
• Continual improvement focused, self-directed and creative
• Design experience with Xilinx and/or Altera FPGAs and be fully competent with simulate, synthesis, debug, and integration tools for test on hardware
• Experience with FPGA timing closure
• Knowledge of Matlab, embedded C programming & Simulink used for development of algorithms
• Scripting languages such as Tcl/Tk, & Python desirable
• Knowledge of simulation tools, ModelSim or equivalent
• Position requires a high degree of self-motivation and the ability to work with little direct supervision.
• Working knowledge of signal integrity, EMI/EMC issues, thermal management, and experience with signal integrity CAD tools.
• Must be able to work closely with board design engineers to ensure functional, electrical, and physical design constraints are clearly communicated and mutually agreeable upon.
• Working knowledge of hardware technology, including High speed digital, memory and mixed-signal.
• Experience translating system and customer requirements into sub-system requirements
• Proven ability to document engineering analysis and design decisions
• System-on-chip (SoC) experience (preferably Xilinx MPSoC) is a plus
• Experience in the field of Medical Devices product design (e.g. MRI, CT, X-Ray, Mammography systems etc.) is a strong plus
• Travel is 5-10%

In return, we offer you

The Lead Electrical Engineer will be working in our MR Patient Care group within the Hospital Patient Monitoring (HPM). This position is located at our Orlando, FL facility. As part of the MR Patient Care group, you will have the opportunity to work with world class engineers who develop products that help save lives all over the world.

How we work at Philips

Our newly adopted hybrid work concept fuses flexibility with collaboration to deliver great outcomes for our people and our customers. We are embracing an approach wherein we spend more time together than apart – which for full-time employees translates to an average of at least 3 days working from the office and up to 2 days from home – for our hybrid roles.​

Hybrid work flexibility means people can meet the changing demands of work and home in the most balanced, productive, and healthy way.

Our hybrid working model is defined in 3 ways:​

We believe in the importance of impactful collaboration: There's a certain energy when everyone’s in the same room that can heighten idea generation and creative friction needed for problem-solving.

We embrace flexibility: Choosing where, when, and how to work can vary according to task and team schedules. Flexibility isn’t office or online, it means choosing the space that works best for you, your teams, and our customers on a case-by-case basis. ​

We want to be at our best: The way we work, and our workspaces are designed to support our well-being, offer career advancement opportunities, and enable us to be at our best. ​

Why should you join Philips?

Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on innovative, customer-first health technology solutions. Help us improve the health and well-being of billions of people, every year. Ultimately creating a career that no one could have planned for. Even you.

Visit our careers website to explore what it’s like working at Philips, read stories from our employee blog, find information about our recruitment process and answers to some frequently asked questions.

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As an equal opportunity employer, Philips is committed to a diverse workforce. In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veterans' Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact 888-367-7223, option 5, for assistance.

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